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Evil and morality in Merwin, Blake, and Emerson

Questions of morality -- specifically the question of morality; namely whether morality can truly be said to exist in an objective way -- have increasingly been a matter of importance in literature and thought as religion has faded in importance.

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Centralization and decentralization in public administration

There exists a great tension within the field of Public Administration, those that view authority has having its central purpose within a consolidated matrix vs.

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Gender as a category of historical analysis and interpretation

Are there differences between social historians and feminist historians? Do gendered readings of the past necessarily focus on women and women's issues?

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Pojman's principle of desert and the challenges of justice

Louis Pojman basically sends a strong moral signal, and it would be hard to disagree that virtue should be rewarded, and vicious behaviors should be punished in some way. If a rational person disagreed with that idea, it would be news.

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Ecofeminism's evidence gap: scholarly arguments and empirical challenges

Claims by feminists of a verifiable linkage between the patriarchal plowing of Planet Earth's ecosystems asunder and those same males' history of trampling on women's needs and rights have a prominent position in feminist literature.

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Is Google making us stupid? Technology and human cognition

'it wasn't like that back in MY day." Almost every generation has had to hear some version of these words, as parents or grandparents rue the fact that life has altered, irrevocably, from the days when the elderly individual was young.

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The Wachowski brothers' auteur style in Bound and The Matrix

The Wachowski Brothers jumped to film legend status with their directorial completion of the Matrix, which would reinvent many of the standards relating to the use of computer graphics, cinematography and major themes.

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Peter Sellers as the best entertainer of the twentieth century

If it were to choose among best entertainers of the past century, the most pertinent answer should refer to a personality with a constant and remarkable presence in the industry of entertaining, with a strong impact on his auditory, and mostly, with achievements that would remain alive and…

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Frederick Turner's frontier thesis and American exceptionalism

Turner's work on the significance of the frontier in American history is perhaps one of the most complex anthropological attempts to define and analyze the American people.

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Malcolm X's views on education and systemic racial inequality in America

Malcolm X's ideas about education in America and its function in society. Malcolm X was self-educated, and he gained that education while he was serving time for robbery in prison.

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